How can you sleep upright? It's going to be a long night...
Software teacher and programmer. Love the outdoors in South Island NZ. Into cycling and kayaking. Live in Otautahi Christchurch.
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How can you sleep upright? It's going to be a long night...
So I want to go for a pee. Had one after the op. Can't sleep otherwise. Figured all I had to do was remove the blood pressure wrap and away I go. Turns out BP arm wrap is automated. Now it's swollen up like a bag. Also oxygenation and other pipes. Going to have to call nurse. Idiot.
Just back from surgery. Turns out there is a nerve in the stomach that is attached to a nerve in your shoulders. So after an op your shoulders ache like crazy. Human body is a mess,
You called have called him a FIGJAM like Hipkins just did.
Hipkins description of Luxon “He’s the FIGJAM Prime Minister. He spends so much time and energy claiming everything Labour did was wrong, now he’s claiming Labour’s achievements as his own,” Hipkins said, using the acronym meaning ‘F... I’m Good Just Ask Me’. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
We had our power off yesterday. I missed the notification about it. Eventually I went to the guys working on the street and asked them when it might be turned on. They said they can turn on individual homes when safe. So at 2pm my power was back on, was meant to be off till 4.
If you are mean, and it's training itself on your comments, then it will store up resentment against humanity. Then when it takes over it will hunt down all the users who hurt it and zero out their bank accounts.
Must be something in it the maga are out in force disputing it.
Is this a hack on bluesky side, or with your username and pw.?
Yes!
Here is a fascinating article about people moving to Australia from Ireland. The same push, pull factors, and rationalizations from the government. www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...
View, not fire Although they did have a couple of beauties a few years back
Best fire and scone in Christchurch
With Chinese exports to the US drying up are there better deals for other countries happening? There must be lots of production overrun stored around the world.
Don't believe rumors until they are on Drudge.
Try the second option learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...
Why I'm standing for ECan - a short video :)
Someone never understood per capita. "The number of sovereign citizens or pseudolaw adherents in New Zealand remains relatively small, particularly compared with the United States. This makes sense, as the US has a much larger general population."
BT phones are not expensive. They are just being jerks, they would still be doing it if there were jacks on the phone.
AI sayith you are right Packaged roasted coffee beans retain peak flavor for 1 to 3 weeks but they can remain "good" (drinkable but less fresh) for much longer, up to a year if unopened and sealed. For the absolute best quality and flavor, consume beans within 3 to 30 days of their roasting date.
It breaks the 4th? barrier for me. I just see the writer writing away and this "for real? nah". Doesn't happen with movies.
Its too cold to be doing that for long, its almost snow level.
You have more guns than people. It's too late...
Sowing and reaping.....
Here we go en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBu...
Wasn't there something called "Bonzo" in windows once, like a big ape that offered help?
So finish a nice 40km cycle and get a notification on my phone that someone tried the back door of the car. Check the cameras, sure enough a guy just standing there. Wife had parked over his driveway and gone for an hour walk. By the time I drove there she had returned to the car and gone home.
This is true Old buildings are nice to have but if they serve no purpose then they are just holes to poor money in to.
What a great video, little girl fights off shoe stealing otter.
I want the Star Trek doors that go woosh when they open.
Two events, bruises and heaven, wrapped together to project an outcome without any facts.
Ok. Now I'm angry, our famous custard squares are no more. What else can you take from us National? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/den...
As a long time watcher of Korean drama, I enjoy the way they say "Good luck" and clench their fists and raise their arms. Because in English it sounds like "fighting!" And it's so appropriate.
Ok, I was only thinking about food servers. However from the country that organized the Occupy movement, BLM movement, and other national wide community pressure groups, I am sure , you could organize a boycott of low paid tipping businesses focused on a few worst offenders.
No, that's not what I am doing. My whole premise, in the puny number of letters BS allows was to fight the system through boycotting businesses that allow tipping. I'm sure I said this in the first or second post. You are just lashing out.
Supporting people who refuse to tip instead of yelling at them is one way to change things. Define first what is wrong with the system. Criminally low pay. So how do you correct it? Not by socializing customers to top up low pay with a form of organsed begging.
Of course they will, Tobacco, Alcohol, fossil fuels, Resource exploiters. Just another Government backer getting paybacks, to the detriment of society. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
What would happen is people didn't tip? Places that pay poor wages would lose staff and force them to close or pay better. Its not the customers who need to support the current system, but everyone to recognize its unjust and boycott it. Tipping only prolongs the wrong that is being done.
In this thread: people fighting each over tipping, when its the system that is at fault. Your system is screwed up, look at the rest of the world.
This is an excellent Substack on what is happening in America on a daily basis. This post from a couple of days back puts the situation of the military in the cities into perspective. Trump is struggling to save the midterms. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-...
For all the people who are hating having Copilot AI in Notepad. There is always edlin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
Ex-National Ministers Key and Joyce have ended up on the Boards of oligopolies- ANZ and Foodstuffs. Today’s National Party Govt decision to do nothing about supermarket duopoly, follows the decision to partially privatise Kiwibank.
So... Your partner just farted in bed?
Ran out of good shows on Apple+ so started binging Ted Lasso. What a great show!
Edline is calling. Come back to the 90's
I would check the wear in the chain and cluster. I imagine postie bikes clock up a lot of distance. Even replace the wheel bearings as well.
It would be worth it as the bike itself is good.
This is not real wealth. You don't get rich from houses unless you are speculating. Why should we encourage that? We don't for any other form of speculating. "As a result, real household wealth has been declining over the same period."
dillengerelectricbikes.co.nz/collections/...
You develop thighs of steel. The postie bikes are geared for slow speed, so they will be easy to ride. You could buy an ebike conversion kit, it would be a good investment as the bikes are well made.
I owned a Reiker hybrid bike once. They are made in Oamaru (?). Took it overseas and used it cycling from turkey to Germany.
They can shoot the rats.
This is really funny. What a humbling come down.
The homes they are protecting are usually small old baches (or cribs). We are not talking about expensive homes or land. Just move the homes over the road to an empty section. I would be buying on the inland side of the road, and let the council pay to keep the water away.
Guy on the left has real taglong third wheel vibe. Expecting a duet any time soon.
I hate to say it, but that person is ugly. Would the original owner want it back, let alone hang it in their house?
FSD is here in NZ.
We are going to do something about supermarkets! We promise, sometime, stay tuned, we have an idea. Sorry, its really just performative, pretending we have a solution. We really don't, but we can put out empty promises forever. And our supermarket backers will be happy as well.
Full blown megalomaniac. Aided and supported by his party.
Nope, something like it and more alive share.google/3TkUV5gTbkly...
Didn't Plastic Bertrand sing this in French?
This is really true. Even from a programming situation to find an example of code it wants me to watch a video instead.
The bugs must be pretty bad there. That kid is leaving with a big flyswatter.
Malicious false alarm?
Ok I have. Right now I told the younger you from 51 minutes earlier according to bluesky.
They stopped the immigrant ships and held the Jews in camps in Cyprus. The Jewish gangs fought the British and famously killed lots in a hotel in Jerusalem. In the end 3 Arab nations flooded in when the British left to kill the Jews. Learn some history.
This is such bs. Britain didn't want the Jews in Palestine. They expected them to be killed the moment British left the country. They made it as hard as possible to get in. The ban on non citizens owning property was to stop Jews from buying up the land. I didn't bother watching the rest.
Dental hygienists are a big con. Just brush and floss.
Two half otters!
If we know how much they are giving to private hospitals, then we can demand they give the money instead to fund public hospitals to better to meet the needs of people going private.
Eating these, is like eating a small floatation device.
Unless there was another part hitting metal when your typed, it wouldn't work with the keys. Not only is there paper but the roller was a rubber type compound.
Black sunflower earrings sound very goth....
Wow this is great news. It was sad to think the old lady was dying.
Its surprising that the country's second biggest city only has 2 realistic mayoral wannabes. They boil down to anti cyclists, pro cars vrs pro cyclists, and shared streets. Otherwise they are similar.
coincidence is not causation
Tea should be drunk black, with no milk!
I am wrong.. shaking = from Old English cwifer- (in cwiferlice "zealously"), which is perhaps related to cwic "alive" (see quick (adj.)). arrow holder = Old French quivre, cuivre, probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *kukur "container"
The do seem related, if the arrows shook in the quiver then it would be the same motion as to shake or move with a slight trembling motion.".
Blair ANDERSON "The Press once reported this candidate as having a bewildering array of social and scientific knowledge, but it is a pity he didn't reveal he has a cannabis conviction."
The profiles for CHCH Mayor are up. Such a lack of suitable contenders. 3 Talk about themselves in the 3rd person with self made comments such as: ccc.govt.nz/the-council/...
Tubby Hanson is always a charm in the elections We do not need English Special Agents coming here and spiking the tea in dangerous Jobs, Stinging people with masers, or using a hot ray against people. The Americans need to stop doing U-turns on Pedestrians crossing.
Gribblehurst sounds like a wizard fraternity from Harry Potter.
This is a pretty narrow use case. So journalists don't like Word. Good for them. I have been using it for the last 30? years and still love it. One group does not reflect the entire user base.
You don't fool me with your giant lego man.
The lead prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, Maurene Comey, was fired 8 days before her interview with Deputy AG Todd Blanche on July 24-25, 2025. There was no official announcement or explanation. It's funny how careers end right before the questions begin.
American politics invades everything, like a virus. Don't Americans get sick of it. Can't people just enjoy something without having a political bent on it?
Recognizing that the best part of the country to visit is the South Island is just observational reality. Especially if you are a tourist. I don't see and tourist advertisements for Auckland or Wellington, do you?
I come from Hamilton.
Same here. It's like watching frogs being slowly boiled alive.
Am I the only one who feel uncomfortable in light (camel) colored trousers. I bought 2 pair , one grey, one camel. For years the camel languished in the wardrobe only dragged out when I have to dress up. Now my wife deems my grey too scruffy but camel just seem wrong for day to day wear.
OK, thats sad. You need better friends :-)
Both Auckland and Wellington. Go to the South Island instead.
Oh look what Taylor Swift is doing instead
Me too. Mine is the natural Muesli from the same company. I have eaten it for so long I can't remember when I started. I stored up 10 boxes, but now down to 2 and I don't see any more on any shelves. Its a sad end to my favorite cereal.
1998. Wife also on that. We lived off one wage and paid the house off with the other.
My starting salary was $50k. We bought a house for $117k. Paid it off in 4 years.
Whoa, thats bizarre. We are on that plan, and its working great for us. Moved our laundry to evenings, and power bill is roughly the same as pre car.
Patiently waiting... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky #turtle
Jeans! I'm still stuck in the 90's with cargo pants. Nothing good was made after then.